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Confirmed: IBM and Ubuntu To Counter Windows 7 at Lotusphere 2010

http://www.thevarguy.com

Once again, The VAR Guy's sources were right. Canonical, as our resident blogger expected, is set to announce some Ubuntu news at IBM's Lotusphere conference in Orlando the week of January 18.

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My Pardus 2009.1 Experience

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If you're a KDE fan but haven't taken Pardus Linux out for a spin in awhile, maybe it's time you should. Yesterday brought us Pardus 2009.1 which features the new hybrid .iso files, one of the easiest installers around in YALI, a sweet KDE 4.3.4 desktop, and a growing number of available applications. I gave the new version of Pardus a shot and here's what I found.

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Google Attacks Highlight the Importance of Surveillance Transparency

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com

It shouldn't surprise us that systems built to give law enforcement access to private communications could become vectors for malicious attacks. ... the culture of secrecy that increasingly surrounds our government's domestic spying programs not only undermines the rule of law, it's a danger to national security as well.

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New Apt-Fast Version, Now With Full Apt-Get Syntax Replacement [Ubuntu / Debian]

http://www.webupd8.org

Apt-Fast is a script which uses Axel, a command line application which accelerates HTTP/FTP downloads by using multiple sources for one file, and one can use it instead of "apt-get" on Debian based Linux distributions to get an amazing download speed improvement.

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Three calculators for the Linux desktop

http://www.ghacks.net

To many, geek = math && nerd = math. To others school = math && math = calculator. During my stint as a computer science major, the very idea of differential had me running scared back to my calculator. It was a must, and for many a symbol of intellect and power.

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Things to know before Replacing Windows by Linux

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All those who have been using Windows since Long and want to try linux then you should prepare yourself before facing Linux. Here I have tried to list out some similaritites as well Differences among the two operating systems which will be helpful to when you start with Linux.

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Newsbeuter: Command Line Feed Reader With Bloglines Sync Support [Linux, Mac OS X]

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Newsbeuter is an open source command line feed reader for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems

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Linux Mint 8 vs Ubuntu 9.10

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Linux Mint and Ubuntu are two very popular Linux distributions. This article is a comparative review of Helena and Karmic koala, the latest editions of Mint and Ubuntu.

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Linux 101 Hacks eBook Goes Online – HTML Version

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I’m happy to announce that my free eBook, Linux 101 Hacks is now available for online browsing in HTML format. I’ve also updated the book with the following minor changes:

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Back Home, with Debian!

http://ebb.org

By the end of 2004, I'd been running Debian ‘testing’ on my laptop since around early 2003, but after 6-8 months of woody, I was backporting far too much and I couldn't spare the time for upkeep. At just about that time, a thing called ‘warty’ was released.

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Google stands up to Chinese government

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RMS: « Google refuses to continue censoring search results for the Chinese government even if that means it ceases providing the service in China.

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BerliOS open source project portal falls victim to attack

http://www.h-online.com

In a recent attack on the web server of the BerliOS (Berlin Open Source) open source platform intruders replaced the portal's home page.

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Selling GPL Exceptions isn't Exceptional

http://www.linux-magazine.com

Richard Stallman's willingness to accept the sale of exceptions to the GNU General Public License intrigues me. What intrigues me is not his acceptance of the idea. Rather, what fascinates me is how many people are reacting as if his comments are something new.

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Monitoring User Activity with psacct or acct

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An excellent program for monitoring users and applications is psacct. This program will work in the background of your system recording what all users are doing on your system as well as the resources that are being consumed. I originally started using this program when a client asked for a way to monitor his developers and what they were doing on the servers that they were working on.

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The most insecure part of your network is...

http://www.itworld.com

Sure, It's Secure: "Your desktops' operating systems? Your servers' operating systems? Your firewall? Or..."

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Anybody up to writing good directory software?

Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David Jonathan

From the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).

Is better education the key to finding better software?

Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward Russel

About Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.

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